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Audrey Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-WilliamsA
Abstract

Scrapbooks, photographs, postcards, and some clippings and publicity material from dancer Audrey Williams, who joined the Dorothy Hild dancers and performed stage shows at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel, as well as touring with the USO during World War II.

Dates: 1910s-1990s; Majority of material found within 1940-1949

Ruth Page papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Page
Abstract

Personal papers of dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. Materials include correspondence, choreographic and technical notes, address books, programs, press clippings and scrapbooks, journals writings, photographs, business records, audio recordings, and musical scores. Featured dance works include The Bells, Carmen, Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Frankie and Johnny, and Billy Sunday.

Dates: 1892-1997

Margot Grimmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Grimmer
Abstract

Material relating to the career of Chicago dancer Margot Grimmer, including clippings, advertising items, programs, a few miscellaneous incoming letters, and numerous photographs.

Dates: 1956-1984

Edna L. McRae papers

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-McRae
Abstract Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Edna McRae started dancing in Chicago Public Schools and studied with Andreas Pavley, Serge Oukrainsky, and Adolph Bolm, among others. She operated a ballet school in Chicago from 1925 to 1964, becoming known as the grande dame of the Chicago Ballet community. Papers include correspondence, biographical information, brochures, clippings, programs, numerous photographs, personal and dance notation notebooks, card files, address books, and eight albums...
Dates: 1910-1990

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Ensemble Espanol
Abstract

Material collected by Libby Komaiko, founder of the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, relating to her and the dance company. Consists mostly of photographs of Komaiko and other dancers, plus a few clippings, flyers, posters, programs, and miscellaneous pieces. Also, two copies of a videotape entitled “The First 20 Years, 1976-1996.”

Dates: 1974-2003

Joel Hall Dancers and Center records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Dance-MS-Joel Hall
Abstract

The Joel Hall Dancers are a Chicago-based, internationally renowned Black jazz dance company founded by Joel Hall and Joseph Ehrenberg. The Company performs the dynamic and exhilarating works of its 48-year repertoire of jazz dance excellence for diverse audiences locally, nationally, and internationally.

Dates: 1974-2022

Stone-Camryn School of Ballet records

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-Stone-Camryn
Abstract

Chicago's Stone-Camryn School of Ballet was founded in 1941 by established dancers Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone. It became one of the most successful American ballet schools in placing its graduates in professional companies, and in creating new generations of dance teachers. Archives include personal and biographical material from Stone and Camryn, school records, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, programs, clippings, and choreographic notes.

Dates: 1865-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988

Ellen Goldsmith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goldsmith
Abstract Large collection of photographs relating to the ballet, opera and cinema, dating from the 1940s through the early 1970s, amassed by Ellen (Teddy) Goldsmith, backstage worker at the Civic Opera House, home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Many of the photographs are professional portraits of opera stars and ballet dancers – many autographed – and hundreds of personal and backstage snapshots. Also, a group of photos of movie stills, popular celebrities and performers, plus a small amount of...
Dates: 1933-2007

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Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 4
Chicago Opera Ballet 3
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Allison, Keith, 1932-1980 (dance teacher) 1
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Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019 1
Balanchine, George 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Bedells, Phyllis, 1893-1985 1
Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Braun, Eric, 1923-1970 1
Bruscantini, Sesto 1
Camryn, Walter 1
Carl Schurz High School (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Chicago Ballet 1
Christoff, Boris 1
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Eglevsky, André 1
Ensemble Español 1
Fernandez, Royes 1
Fleming, Libby Komaiko 1
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 1
Gobbi, Tito 1
Goldsmith, Ellen, 1926-2007 1
Graham, Martha 1
Grimmer, Ann 1
Grimmer, Margot 1
Hansen, Beth Duda 1
Hild, Dorothy 1
Holden, Stanley 1
Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992 1
Howard, Alan, 1930- 1
Joel Hall Dancers & Center 1
Karsavina, Tamara 1
Kaye, Danny 1
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 1
Kitt, Eartha 1
Kraus, Alfredo 1
Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968 1
Kriza, John 1
Legat, Nikolaĭ Gustavovich, 1869-1937 1
Liberace, 1919-1987 1
Long, Larry, 1936-2009 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Marceau, Marcel 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance Company 1
Margot Grimmer American Dance School 1
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 1
McRae, Edna L. 1
McRae, Elma Marie 1
New York City Ballet 1
Nicholson, Juanita 1
Nilsson, Birgit 1
Oukrainsky, Serge, 1886-1972 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931 1
Phyllis Sabold Dance Company 1
Price, Leontyne 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Royal Ballet 1
Ruth Page Foundation 1
Ruth Page's International Ballet Company 1
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 1
Tebaldi, Renata 1
Trefilova, Vera, 1875-1943 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Uppman, Theodor, 1920-2005 1
Van Praagh, Peggy 1
Vickers, Jon 1
Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960 1
Williams, Audrey, 1926-2019 1
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 1
Zanasi, Mario 1
Zoritch, George, 1917-2009 1
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